Growing Smart Cities

Philip Richard Garnett

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-15792-0_12

Growing Smart Cities

Philip Richard Garnett

The York Management School

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Abstract

As the world’s population becomes increasingly urbanised the problems of building sustainable cities also grows. Using Susan Stepney’s response, “Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns Grow”, to a science fiction story by Adam Marek titled “Growing Skyscrapers”, this chapter looks at what a living city of the future might look like, and how that might solve some of the problems of the control and development of cities. There is a long history of the application of systems thinking, cybernetics, and complex systems and the growth and control of cities. However, many problems still remain in the deployment and applications of these frameworks and methodologies, and in the potential consequences of their use. However, perhaps many of these could be solved by the development of a living city.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	From Astrophysics to Unconventional Computation
Editors	Andrew Adamatzky, Vivien Kendon
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	12
Pages	299-310
Number of pages	11
Volume	35
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-15792-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-15791-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15792-0_12
Publication status	Published - 17 Apr 2019

Publication series

Name	Emergence, Complexity and Computation

Keywords

COMPLEXITY
cybernetics
complex systems
Cities

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